The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-22


Frank Northcutt's house. became sick and
| the perslJiratiOu almost ceased 70 hOw, but
/ strange r. say. blood oozed from the top Of
I his head profusely He washed Il off and
soon his hair became clotted with blood
again. The sweating of blood seemed TO
give him relief He quit work and went
home Several gentlemen witnessed this
! strange occurrence and yOuch for Its truth.
At Camilla. Tuesday evening about :
! O'Clock, the residence of c. O. Cochran was
| struck by lightning. the roof considerably
/ torn - pieces, and the building otherwise
! damaged Mrs. Cochran was standing in
the hall, having just washed her hands after
| supper, She was knocked down, falling on
! her face. and remained in that position, be
/ ing senseleSs, until her husband, who was in
/ the family room with others Of the house
/ hold. went TO her and raised her up and car
/ ried her to the bed. Others Of the family,
/ including Mr.. Cochran, We're very much
/ shocked. Mrs Cochran soon recovered and
/ is doing well In January last. Just after
supper had been served, Mr.. COchrans resi-
/ dence caught On fire and was entirely con-
/ sumel
Wednesday Treasurer Hardeman paid
warrant for 81. 80 on account Of the salary
and stationery account Of Mr.. y. c. Mon
roe, who Is now IL Washington city engaged
/ in compiling a complete roster OF the
| Georgia troops in the late war IL Is pos
sibe that Mr. Monroe will be detained in
Washington for some eight or nine months
by the work and as the general assembly
only appropriated 81 900 for the work, the
Acknowledgement is apprehensive that the
work viii not be completed within the scope
of the appropriation. Mr. Monroe is a rapid
though careful worker, and since his stay in
| Washington has done a great deal toward
getting the work under good Roadway.
a most curious object in the shape Of
negro child is 10 be seen near the corner of
Marbury and New South Boundary streets,
at Augusta The boy. who is about years
Of age, has neither hands nor feet. As sub
stitutes for these limbs nature has given
him claws somewhat resembling those of
crab. There are little or no palms, but
small round pieces Of flesh about the size of
a silver dollar, from which project two
| long double Ointed claws Similarly are
constructed what nature has given as feet.
There are no Soles, but what serve as heels
are something like what ordinarily serve as
palms On these heels the child wabbles
along and from them two double Ointed
claws also project. The child nOtwIthstand-
ing, IS healthy and able to navigate with
ease.
Wednesday morning Gov. Gordon gave
an audience % quite q number Of gentle
men, who appeared in the interests Of VIII
liam McRee, Of Eastman McRee Is serv-
ing a term in the penltentiary for alleged
completely in the Eastman riot several years
ago, in which young white man, unjustly
accused Of numbering negro, met bis death
at the hands Of an infuriated mob of ne
grOes The friends of McRee claim that he
was innocent of any completely in the affair,
and has already been severely punished
for what suspicious circumstances that
were arrayed against him by serving
number Of years in the peniten-
"a FarrfI m a N1T1rr E4rHf nm,
were several members of the Legis
lature, presented McRee's case in the stroug
est light possible Gov Gordon will take
the matter under advisement.
Farburn Ne,CS: Does it pay to keep a
cowl Mr.. S. Z. Christopher says it does
He has a Jersey cow which has for the past
| seven months given an aggregate Of 80 gal
| Ions Of milk and 262 pounds of butter. At
| 20 cents per pound the butter would bring
| $3.50: and allowing 10 cents per gallon, the
| buttermilk would bring S5s. 30, a total sum
| for milk and butter Of Slll. Put the cost
| of her feed at twenty-five cents per day and
| it would have amounted to $52 So leaving a
| profit of So. 50 Or, in other words at
! twenty-five cents day for feed, the butter
| lat twenty cents per pound would have paid
| for her feed, leaving the milk clear profit
| And the milk at ten cents per gallon would
have more than paid for her food 10y ST.
and left all the butter clear profit These
are reasonable figures, and perhaps it would
| pay you to give them some thought.
At Dawson Saturday night, between II
| and O'Clock, an attempt was made to chic
reform Judge II. Rogers, who was asleep in
| his bed. Judge Rogers was sleeping in a
room by himself and the bed was near a
window. The blinds were closed and the
! parties who made the attempt must have
used syringe to throw the liquid under
the nose of the sleeping man. Too much OF
| il was used which came very near strang-
ling the Judge and woke him up The use
of large fan, for few moments, soon ban
ished the effects of the narcotic and Judge
Rogers was all right again. Next morning
| footprints were seen on the outside where
| the would-be robbers or murdQrers got upon
the back porch to do the dastardly deed II
is not known who the parties are, but there
had been two tramps around the city for
| two or three days previous, who pretended
10 be carpenters in search of work
There was Jail delivery at Hincsville last
Wednesday night. When breakfast wa.
carried to the inmates early Thursday morn
ing, there was no one there to eat it. Ami
| vestigatiOn developed the fact that the in
mates had obtained assistance from outside
friends, and with ak, crowbar and chiSe
had broken and wrenched or the doors
| OF the cells and the outer door
| sufficient to allow their egross. That out
side help was given was shown by the fact
that boards were leaning against the out
side wall and several tracks were discerni-
BILE in the soft ground. There wore four
| prisoners in the jail, all colored, awaiting
trial. One was held TO answer to the charge
of abduction, one for breaking into a freight
car on the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway, while the other two had but re
Gently been committed on the charge of
stealing terrapins.
As related, thirty melons were received
at the State Agricultural Department from
| Primus W. Jones, OF Dougherty county
| The melons We're sent for the purpose of per
! hitting the members of the legislature tC
taste what was really good watermelon.
| Wednesday afternoon between and I
o'clock a large number of legislators and
gentlemen repaired by invitation Of Com.
missioner Henderson TO the capitol basement
where darkles with keen knives were en-
! gagged cutting open the melons The melons
were unusually large, the smallest one
weighing forty-flve pounds, while the larg-
est went over siXty-four. They greatly
| relished and almost every man saved some
of the seeds. When the next crop is planted
! Jones's peculiar variety will he found all
over Georgia. The legislature was not in
very good trim for eating melons, but il
managed TO get away with exactly LOO
pounds Of the attractive fruit
At Griffin, in 1885, William 4. Cole and
George |. Jones formcd.a copartnership for
! the pu,.pOsa Of buviug and Saline ,,,,a,,,